Re: Some small projects for mutt(1)

2002-07-01 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:18:38PM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: Interesting. How would you have a key bound sequence in mutt set off the script on the message, though? For instance, if I do a ctrl+B, how would you ensure that the Right Thing happens, without modifying mutt code?

Re: getting a coredump before boot device found

2002-07-01 Thread Don Lewis
On 30 Jun, Julian Elischer wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: do you have 2 machines you can link together? Oh yes. But I know nothing about remote gdb. it's not that difficult.. have the source and compile

Strange linker messages on 4.5 buildworld

2002-07-01 Thread d_f0rce
Hi, cause of the resolver bug I cvsuped to RELENG_4_5 and wanted to rebuild world. Unfortunately I get some strange linker messages: cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -march=k6 -I. -I/usr/src/lib/libipsec -DIPSEC_DEBUG -DIPSEC -DINET6 -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c

Re: AS99127F Hardware Monitor

2002-07-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
The ASUS A7N266-E motherboard has the nVidia 420D chipset. Of course, ASUS and nVidia will not provide datasheets... This is not a production machine... # uname -a FreeBSD asus 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 17 13:15:02 PDT 2002 \ root@asus:/usr/src/sys/compile/ASUS i386 I

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Len Conrad wrote: Sorry, hackers, I posted this twice in -questions and got no response. If the problem is newreno, can somebody say how to up just that piece for 4.4 so as to be as non-disruptive, non-dice-rolling as

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 12:00 , D J Hawkey Jr wrote: Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it, and what the ramifications of turning it off are? http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+new+reno To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
D J Hawkey Jr wrote: You can turn off newreno with the sysctl. I put this in /etc/sysctl.conf on my machines: net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it, and what the ramifications of turning it off are? I'm running FreeBSD

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jul 01, at 09:56 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: D J Hawkey Jr wrote: You can turn off newreno with the sysctl. I put this in /etc/sysctl.conf on my machines: net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 Could you explain what newreno is, in a nutshell, the upshots of using it, and what the

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
D J Hawkey Jr wrote: If you turn it off, you rat all your firends out in the Prisoner's Dilemma. Congestion control protocols only work if everyone participates. All Reno TCP implementations include TCP Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery algorithms [RFC2581]... [SNIP]

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
D J Hawkey Jr wrote: I'm guessing that the suggestion to turn it off (the original thread) is valid enough, as all machines referred to were on the same network, else why wouldn't the above still hold true? Or is it a matter of FTP and/or SMTP (specifically, sendmail) not playing nice with

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: D J Hawkey Jr wrote: I'm guessing that the suggestion to turn it off (the original thread) is valid enough, as all machines referred to were on the same network, else why wouldn't the above still hold true? Or is it a matter of FTP and/or SMTP

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed that even on a homogenous network (all with newreno enabled) performance is still worse than

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Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:23:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: How do I dual boot -current and -stable from different slices on the same IDE disk? (and linux too.) When I tell lilo to boot hde3, I get the -stable boot2 and /boot/loader from hde2 (ad4s2a). I can then monkey around

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed that even on a homogenous network (all with

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Barton writ es: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Sierchio
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very good test-bed for this issue. Wireless breaks a lot

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jul 01, at 01:50 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: The problem is that Terry has described the theory, whereas many of us who have observed the situation in the real world have noticed

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Sierchio writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: Guys, guys... Take 'er easy. All I asked is what it is, what it does, and the ramifications. Thank you both for enlightening me. Really. No sarcasm. I actually wasn't being sarcastic... You've wandered into a briar patch of long standing though, so

panic: ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch

2002-07-01 Thread Vince Valenti
Hello, I have a machine running 4.6-RELEASE-p1 and it is panicing every day or so... It had the same problem on 4.4-RELEASE and 4.5-RELEASE. Does anybody have any ideas what might be causing this? It is a Dell PowerEdge 6350 with a PERC2/QC RAID controller and 1GB of memory. The server also

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
Yes, I can attest to this an I belive it is actually the case on both -current and -releng4 that disabling newreno improves TCP performance. I belive running an X11 application or scp(1) over a wavelan is a very good test-bed for this issue. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Cyrille Lefevre writes: On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:23:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: How do I dual boot -current and -stable from different slices on the same IDE disk? (and linux too.) When I tell lilo to boot hde3, I get the -stable boot2 and /boot/loader from hde2

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Doug Barton wrote: I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and Matt Dillon posted patches? Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's broken now, and in my experience, turning it off makes the

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Doug Barton wrote: I guess you missed the part where I said that FreeBSD had bugs, and Matt Dillon posted patches? Nope. I think you missed the part where I said I was talking about reality, not theory. :) The reality is, it's broken now,

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Doug Barton wrote: Then use Dillon's patches, instead of just turning it off. Dillon's patches were committed, by Dillon. :) My systems still work better with newreno off than with it on. Your anecdotal experience with works better is just that -- anecdotal. It doesn't hold for the

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Kip Macy
x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub understand reiserfs? Yes. If you had ever worked with the source to LILO it would terrify you too. -Kip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in

Re: ftp and mail much slower into fbsd 4.4 vs and old BSDi

2002-07-01 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jul 01, at 03:34 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: Then use Dillon's patches, instead of just turning it off. Your anecdotal experience with works better is just that -- anecdotal. It doesn't hold for the general case. I guess the problem is that the patches are not committed to the version

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Hiten Pandya
: x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub : understand reiserfs? --- Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. If you had ever worked with the source to LILO it would terrify you too. As far as I know, Grub is one of the best bootloaders around. It supports IBM JFS

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Chan Tur Wei
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:13:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dual booting current/stable on x86? Cyrille Lefevre writes: On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at

FreeBSD problem: $50 reward.

2002-07-01 Thread Lucky Green
Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many times

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Chan Tur Wei writes: I'm not sure how booting with lilo will work (never played with it). Instead, I dug around a bit previously, and I found that boot1.s reads: # # If we are on a hard drive, then load the MBR and look for the first # FreeBSD slice. We use the fake partition

Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward.

2002-07-01 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
What form are you using for the drive in the BIOS--LBA or Large? Trying forcing it to Large (sometime LG) write down the geometry determined by the BIOS, and enter it with fdisk using during the install. This should work. :) jmc On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 18:25, Lucky Green wrote: Fifty bucks to

S/390 port status

2002-07-01 Thread Serguei Tzukanov
Reaches mount root prompt in emulator. More info is on http://tzukanov.narod.ru/freebsd390/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: dual booting current/stable on x86?

2002-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Chan Tur Wei writes: So unless someone specifically sets the active partition, the 1st FreeBSD one, usually -stable, will get loaded. Since boot1+boot2 is loaded by the partition boot boot0, or the standard DOS boot (or, even MS's multi boot selector), the above may cause the 2nd